A good quality checklist guides the user. The questions are in a logical order. For instance, if a person is going through several spaces, the questions are grouped in the order of the spaces. A logical checklist is well divided into separate sections, presents logical sets of questions and is intuitive to use.

A checklist can be very broad, providing only limited information on an item. It can also hinder performance for critical situations. People become dependent on checklists that they forget to use their common sense.